SC allows Kerala colleges old admission norms, fee

The order had come as an embarrassment to the state government, which since coming to power had come up with a law to regulate admissions in the self-financing professional colleges.

Today’s SC direction was also on similar lines as it said the private unaided professional colleges could fill 50 per cent seats with students who had taken the Common Entrance Test conducted by the state and the rest with students selected from the exam held by the colleges’ association.

The Bench also said the Justice Mohammed Committee would examine various contentious issues arising out of the CET held by the private colleges’ association and file its report by September 8. It gave the committee liberty to act if it found substance in the charge of irregularity in the procedure.

The private colleges’ management were against the recently enacted Kerala Professional Colleges (Prohibition of Capitation Fee, Regulation of Admission, Fixation of Non-exploitative fee and other measures to ensure equity and excellence in professional education) Act, 2006.